A rich financier who claims a prime architect promised him a house cinema with ‘wow issue’ however delivered a ‘catastrophe’ is now suing him for practically £1m.

Philip Freeborn, 55, former head of operations at Barclays Capital, wished a ‘glossy modernist dice’ floating within the leisure advanced of his £7m dwelling.

However what he acquired, he claims, was an unfinished eyesore and ‘costly white elephant’ loathed by each him and his spouse, Christina Goldie, 54.

Removed from dramatically ‘floating’ within the roof house of their backyard pool home, it rested on ‘ugly and conspicuous’ metal columns, he instructed the Excessive Court docket.

The house cinema system within the £7m dwelling of Philip Freeborn and Christina Goldie was commissioned as a ‘glossy modernist dice’ with ‘wow issue’ however is now thought-about an ‘costly white elephant’ by the couple, who say it has an ‘industrial really feel’

And they’re so sad with its ‘industrial really feel’, they are saying that demolition and re-building of their Totteridge house is the one possibility.

Now the couple are blaming rising younger architect, Daniel Marcal, for his or her damaged dream and are suing him for enormous damages.

They’re asking for £1million to recoup ‘wasted prices’, to demolish the set up, and to make good the constructing website.

Mr Marcal, nonetheless, denies all fault, insisting his position within the challenge was restricted and the couple don’t have any trigger for grievance.

Robert Clay, for the couple, stated they have been impressed by Mr Marcal’s imaginative and prescient of a house cinema housed ‘in a glass field floating within the roof house’.

It was to be fitted with cutting-edge audio visible know-how, however the design was closely revised throughout the constructing works in 2014 and 2015, the courtroom heard.

It stays incomplete to this present day, stated Mr Clay, however even in its near-final kind its look got here as an ‘disagreeable shock’ to the couple.

Philip Freeborn, 55, former Barclays Capital head of operations, (pictured left) and his spouse Christina Goldie, 54, (pictured proper) ‘detest’ the house cinema put in by architect Daniel Marcal of their £7m dwelling in northwest London

The parents-of-two fiercely disliked the cinema’s ‘industrial really feel’ and didn’t anticipate it to be supported by six stable columns.

‘The challenge went badly…the cinema as constructed is out of alignment and doesn’t match within the house,’ Mr Clay instructed Decide Martin Bowdery QC

‘To treatment its deficiencies would require dismantling, demolishing and re-building,’ he added.

‘Most significantly, the architectural jewel which they thought they’d acquire has turned out to be very totally different from their expectations. They don’t prefer it and it isn’t in any respect what they anticipated.

‘As an alternative of a glossy modernist dice suspended over the corridor, they discover that the result’s disappointing and has an industrial look.’